Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal St Mary's lifeboat, 12 September 1993 Barry Bennett took St Mary's Arun class lifeboat Robert Edgar into a small, shallow and rockstrewn cove to rescue two yachts anchored there and caught out by a change in the weather.

A Severe Gale Force 9 was blowing into the "" V M * r o vr .uul .1 misty MII high swell was breaking - I heavily around the yacht. With very little room to u j . I manoeuvre the lifeboat snatched a man to safety HL £[ I just seconds before his yacht was overwhelmed u I and sank.

4 VV - • A full account of this service appeared in the Winter J* A ' Kt j 993/94 issue of THE LIFEBOAT..